This is not a bash Toney thread. It is just something I am learning about right now. I was harsh on the Giants for drafting Baker after finding out they knew about his character concerns. I was harsh on learning about Parsons immaturity issues. Now I see this about Toney:
Some background on Toney’s off-field incidents at Florida:
In May of 2018, Toney was detained — not arrested — by Gainesville police for an on-campus confrontation between Florida players and locals where he painted an air-soft gun to look like an AR-15 assault rifle. According to reports, Toney and a teammate were caught “holding and pointing what appears to be an assault rifle at other individuals on campus.”
In July of 2018, police officers pulled Toney over for a seatbelt violation and during the stop discovered a loaded AR-15 in the backseat of his car. He was initially handcuffed for safety reasons — due to the presence of the weapon in the vehicle — but was eventually released once it was determined that Toney wasn’t violating Florida’s open-carry law.
Toney was eventually suspended for the Gators’ season opener that year.
- So, he didn't do anything wrong here. That said, he openly carries an AR15 for some reason which I personally find to be nothing but trouble. I am against civilians being able to own such powerful guns. My opinion.
They say hey fully vetted him and believe in his character but, they also said the same with Baker (Gettleman did, Judge was not here).
The Giants were well aware of all of that, which is why they spent so much time digging into Toney’s background and mining their resources for information. Judge pointed out that senior defensive assistant Jeremy Pruitt recruited Toney out of high school when he was an assistant at Alabama and had an established relationship with him already.
“We have numerous coaches that spent a long time recruiting, have had this guy in summer camps for multiple days at a time and had extended exposure to him,” Judge said.
“We spent time with him in person to get to know the person there and that continues,” Pettit said. “Listen, if there was a concern with him, he wouldn’t have been on our board.”
www.nj.com/giants/2021/04/in-kadarius-toney-giants-drafted-a-player-with-off-field-issues-at-florida-but-they-still-dont-think-hes-the-next-deandre-baker.html?outputType=ampSo, if you were against drafting Parsons because of his past, is this something that concerns you?
I didn't realize all these gun things were in his past. Nothing I see since 2018 when he was 19-20 year old, but, Florida is a school that buries a lot of incidents and wrong doings for their football players.
Hopefully it is all in the past.